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Arthur Brooks

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Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

I don't travel on weekends because I'm going to be home with my wife on weekends. I'm gone all the time during the week. 48 weeks a year I'm on the road because I'm on tour. I'm speaking to her and, you know, it's phenomenal. It's great. But I'm home on weekends because I want to sleep with my best friend.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

I don't travel on weekends because I'm going to be home with my wife on weekends. I'm gone all the time during the week. 48 weeks a year I'm on the road because I'm on tour. I'm speaking to her and, you know, it's phenomenal. It's great. But I'm home on weekends because I want to sleep with my best friend.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

I don't travel on weekends because I'm going to be home with my wife on weekends. I'm gone all the time during the week. 48 weeks a year I'm on the road because I'm on tour. I'm speaking to her and, you know, it's phenomenal. It's great. But I'm home on weekends because I want to sleep with my best friend.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

So that's really what we're talking about now is the staying in love part is actually remembering that you have a pair bond and the pair bond requires that you don't make mistakes and you continue to cultivate, you continue to cultivate the oxytocin mediated relationship.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

So that's really what we're talking about now is the staying in love part is actually remembering that you have a pair bond and the pair bond requires that you don't make mistakes and you continue to cultivate, you continue to cultivate the oxytocin mediated relationship.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

So that's really what we're talking about now is the staying in love part is actually remembering that you have a pair bond and the pair bond requires that you don't make mistakes and you continue to cultivate, you continue to cultivate the oxytocin mediated relationship.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

And so it's not making mistakes and doing things that will, I mean, stupid mistakes, like, like getting into a different pair bond, obviously, but also not doing things that will pull you apart from that, from that person, not making decisions that get in the way of the relationship. And so that is your prominent relationship is the most important thing is the person on whom you will be.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

And so it's not making mistakes and doing things that will, I mean, stupid mistakes, like, like getting into a different pair bond, obviously, but also not doing things that will pull you apart from that, from that person, not making decisions that get in the way of the relationship. And so that is your prominent relationship is the most important thing is the person on whom you will be.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

And so it's not making mistakes and doing things that will, I mean, stupid mistakes, like, like getting into a different pair bond, obviously, but also not doing things that will pull you apart from that, from that person, not making decisions that get in the way of the relationship. And so that is your prominent relationship is the most important thing is the person on whom you will be.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

gazing as you take your dying breath. And that's actually what you want. And that's really, really important. Now, religious couples have a real advantage on this. And that's because almost every major religion has a concept of marriage, which is that marriage is your antenna to the divine.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

gazing as you take your dying breath. And that's actually what you want. And that's really, really important. Now, religious couples have a real advantage on this. And that's because almost every major religion has a concept of marriage, which is that marriage is your antenna to the divine.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

gazing as you take your dying breath. And that's actually what you want. And that's really, really important. Now, religious couples have a real advantage on this. And that's because almost every major religion has a concept of marriage, which is that marriage is your antenna to the divine.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

And so most married couples who are religious, one of the things that they believe is that when I love her, it's God's love for her coming through me and vice versa. And her love for me is God's love for me coming through her.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

And so most married couples who are religious, one of the things that they believe is that when I love her, it's God's love for her coming through me and vice versa. And her love for me is God's love for me coming through her.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

And so most married couples who are religious, one of the things that they believe is that when I love her, it's God's love for her coming through me and vice versa. And her love for me is God's love for me coming through her.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

And that's when, and so, you know, when I'm counseling couples that are getting ready to get married in the church, for example, I'll say the most intimate thing that you're going to do, and they think I'm going to talk about sex, praying together. That's literally the most intimate thing that a couple will ever do.

Modern Wisdom
#931 - Arthur Brooks - Harvard Professor Reveals The Secret To Lasting Love & Happiness

And that's when, and so, you know, when I'm counseling couples that are getting ready to get married in the church, for example, I'll say the most intimate thing that you're going to do, and they think I'm going to talk about sex, praying together. That's literally the most intimate thing that a couple will ever do.